As the name suggests, the "80,000 Plan" means that the Hong Kong government will significantly increase the annual housing supply budget from less than 40,000 units to 85,000 units, of which the supply of public housing will be increased from less than 20,000 units to 10,000 units!

This is also the most important livelihood plan proposed by Tong Xinhua as the first chief executive on the day of the return of Hong Kong after the return of Hong Kong.

Public housing in Hong Kong is similar in nature to the HDB flats in Lee Ka Po and both fall under the category of public rental housing. Due to the high price of housing in Hong Kong, in order to allow the common people to have a place to live, the Hong Kong government will build a batch of public housing every year and rent it to eligible Xiangjiang residents at relatively low prices.

The rent of public housing is equivalent to 10% to 20% of the total income of the tenant household. If you can apply for public housing, even though the area is only 30 to 40 square meters, it is still a very happy thing compared to the unattainable housing prices.

But the problem is that Hong Kong offers so little public housing every year that if you want to apply, you have to queue up, with an average waiting period of more than six and a half years. That is to say, a person who has reached the age of 18 has just entered the university and started to apply, and has worked for two years after graduation, and the application has not been approved.

On top of that, the horrific housing prices have seriously damaged Xiangjiang's consumption and investment reproduction capacity.

Consumption and reproduction are the foundation of any steady social and economic development, and when a Xiangjiang person buys a house, it not only depletes the life savings of several families, but also burdens the buyer with heavy debts.

Before 97, the people of Xiangjiang relied on their special geographical advantages and their own intelligence and diligence, relying on entrepot trade and financial services to make a living, and the whole society was vigorous and the economic development was also very rapid.

But how long can this last?

As one of the top people in Xiangjiang, Tong Xinhua knows very well that if he continues to connive at the real estate to kidnap the economy of Xiangjiang, sooner or later, Xiangjiang will inevitably decline and become an ordinary city in China.

In response to this long-term crisis, Tong Xinhua announced in his inaugural speech on his first day of inauguration that the annual supply of public housing would be doubled, bringing the total annual supply of housing to 85,000 units.

This set of policies is known as the 80,000 Plan.

However, such a set of plans to benefit the country, the people and Hong Kong was met with frantic resistance from the middle class in Hong Kong, and it was about to die.

"Mr. Zhang, as far as I know, the 80,000 Five-Year Plan has been stranded at present, tsk tsk, it's not me who said, Chief Executive Tong is still too aggressive, blindly violating the laws of the market, administrative intervention in the market, watching the news, there are many property speculators who have become negative assets overnight, and there are not a few who jump off the building to burn charcoal. Li Wanshou rolled his eyes, and then he came up with a way to deal with it, putting on a compassionate expression, "Of course, the SAR government is kind, but after all, he has no experience in governance, and he has done bad things with good intentions." According to Hayek, spontaneous order achieves the value standards and established tendencies of natural selection through the use of the invisible hand, XXXXXXXX"

Li Wanshou really has two brushes, cites scriptures, and takes out Hayek's theory to prove the necessity of opening the real estate market.

Hearing Li Wanshou say this, Zhang Chen had a little more affection for this Li Wanshou.

Li Wanshou is a typical representative of the southern faction, who believes in the self-regulation of the market and is not interested in the planned economy. Localities under such bureaucratic rule tend to have good economic performance for a long time to come. As a bureaucrat in the mainland, being able to understand the specific policy trends of Xiangjiang shows that Li Wanshou at least has a certain international vision, rather than just staring at his own one-third of an acre.

However, before Zhang Chen's rebirth, the economic community had already questioned Hayek's theory of self-generated order. Countries that fully follow Hayek's theories tend to have their economies stagnant and societies in disarray.

Zhang Chen did not want to deny Hayek, nor did he deny Hayek's qualifications, he believed that the market has the ability to self-regulate, but it is difficult to say whether this self-regulation ability is adjusted to good places or bad places.

After all, the market is unconscious, only the product of objective laws, and whether the self-regulation of such objective laws can conform to the common interests of mankind may be exactly contrary to human expectations.

"Secretary Li, you are right, Xiangjiang's 80,000 plan has indeed run aground. Zhang Chen smiled slightly, "However, doesn't this just explain the evil consequences of Xiangjiang's release of the monster of real estate?"

"Bad consequences?" Li Wanshou immediately retorted, "There are so many cities in China, just find one, even if it is Huhai, you ask the people of Huhai to let their per capita income and per capita GDP catch up with half of Xiangjiang, but you have to bear the consequences you said, see if they are willing? I am afraid that they will break the head! Needless to say half, one-third of the cities in China have reached one-third of the level of Xiangjiang, and our total GDP will exceed that of Dongying!"

Jiang You's team burst into laughter, really, if you can catch up with half of Xiangjiang, what is the bad result?

Regardless of per capita GDP or per capita income, Xiangjiang is the level of developed countries in the world, and if there are a few cities in China that reach the level of Xiangjiang, China's overall GDP will be able to compete with Germany, and maybe it will be able to catch up with Dongying.

Catching up with Dongying, what a distant goal.

In the 50s, it was said that it would surpass Britain in three years and catch up with the United States in five years, but in the early 70s, China's GDP barely surpassed India's, and it has been 20 years since the reform and opening up, and China's GDP finally ranked seventh, and although last year's GDP reached 1,871.2 billion US dollars, it still ranked behind Great Britain.

As for Germany, which ranks third, it is 1.2 trillion dollars more than China.

And Dongying, which has long been called a little devil in China, has a total GDP of 5,430.7 billion US dollars, three times that of China!

In my lifetime, it is already very good to see Huaxia catch up with Germany, as for catching up with Dongying?

The original solemn conference room was filled with a cheerful atmosphere amid the laughter of everyone.

"Catch up with half of Xiangjiang? more than Dongying? Just be satisfied? This is the ambition of a Chinese official?" Zhang Chen didn't smile, and there was no expression on his face at all.

The laughter in the conference room stopped abruptly, some people showed disapproving expressions on their faces, and more people peeked at Yang Zhuping, but they couldn't see any signal from Yang Zhuping's face.

Li Wanshou was a little annoyed in his heart, in his opinion, Zhang Chen was completely vexatious, but he was satisfied? Of course he was satisfied! The total amount exceeded that of Dongying, and he was not satisfied? You are a little kid, do you know how big the gap between Huaxia and Dongying is?

"Mr. Zhang is young and ambitious, and he is really confident, self-confidence is a good thing, but if he is arrogant, he will stumble. "The clay man still has three points of earthiness, not to mention that Li Wanshou is a capable official, anyone who is capable of being an official must have a temper, that is, Yang Zhuping is at the scene, Li Wanshou is just a few words of yin and yang weird sarcasm, otherwise, he would have brushed his sleeves away.

"Since the Qin and Han dynasties, for more than half of its more than 2,000 years of history, China has been the strongest country in the world. We don't mention the four great inventions that have been said to be rotten, nor do we mention the Wolf Juxu and the coming of all countries, not to mention that when Europe was still in the dark Middle Ages, China had already given birth to the brilliant Sui and Tang civilizations. Only mention the middle of the eighteenth century, in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, it is specifically stated that "the wealth of the Chinese is twice that of the Europeans". You know, at that time, the industrial revolution had already begun in Europe, and Huaxia was already the Qing Dynasty that was in decline, the Qing Dynasty that we thought was poor and weak, ignorant and backward!"

"Even the economy of the Qing Dynasty was the first in the world at that time, Secretary Li, you tell me now, we will be satisfied if we surpass Dongying!?"

Li Wanshou was stunned for a while, and just wanted to speak, but saw Zhang Chen standing up.

"Turning over the myths and stories, our heaven and earth were opened by Pangu! Our mountains were moved by Yugong! Our great water was ruled by Dayu! Our sun was shot by Houyi! The Chinese people are not convinced by the heavens and the earth, so how can they obey a small Dongying! Taizu said that we should attach importance to the enemy tactically, but we should now attach more importance to ourselves! We should be the number one in the world, and we can only be the first in the world! The total GDP exceeds that of Dongying, and we are satisfied? This kind of remark is a shame! A disgrace to the Chinese people!

"Our party represents the requirements for the development of advanced productive forces, the direction of development of China's advanced culture, and still more the fundamental interests of the broad masses of the people; if we do not have a comprehensive, coordinated, and sustainable outlook on development, we will be irresponsible to history! We will be irresponsible to the people! We will not be responsible to future generations!"

"I firmly believe that the Chinese civilization will be destined to usher in its great rejuvenation, which is my dream and the common dream of all Chinese people!"

"So, I'm sorry, but while your proposal does speed up the process of commoditizing housing and can also significantly increase fiscal revenue, I still oppose it. ”

"There is no country in the world that has become a strong country with real estate. ”

(End of chapter)